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From: Paul Gauthier <aider@paulg.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 08:11:06 -0800
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 - [Can I run aider in Google Colab?](#can-i-run-aider-in-google-colab)
 - [How can I run aider locally from source code?](#how-can-i-run-aider-locally-from-source-code)
 - [Can I script aider?](#can-i-script-aider)
+- [What code languages does aider support?](#what-code-languages-does-aider-support)
 
 ## How does aider use git?
 
@@ -287,3 +288,42 @@ coder.run("make a script that prints hello world")
 # Send another instruction
 coder.run("make it say goodbye")
 ```
+
+## What code languages does aider support?
+
+Aider supports pretty much all the popular coding languages.
+This is partly because GPT-4 is fluent in most mainstream languages,
+and familiar with popular libraries, packages and frameworks.
+
+In fact, coding with aider is sometimes the most magical
+when you're working in a language that you
+are less familiar with.
+GPT often knows the language better than you,
+and can generate all the boilerplate to get to the heart of your
+problem.
+GPT will often solve your problem in an elegant way
+using a library or package that you weren't even aware of.
+
+Aider uses tree-sitter to do code analysis and help
+GPT navigate larger code bases by producing
+a [repository map](https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html).
+
+Aider can currently produce repository maps for most mainstream languages, listed below.
+But aider should work quite well for other languages, even without repo map support.
+
+- C
+- C#
+- C++
+- Emacs Lisp
+- Elixir
+- Elm
+- Go
+- Java
+- Javascript
+- OCaml
+- PHP
+- Python
+- QL
+- Ruby
+- Rust
+- Typescript